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Jolly Roger
1999 · Film · short · 12 min
Directed by Mark Baker
After marauding and sinking another ship, a band of pirates capture a female passenger, then send her overboard as punishment for her defiance. She vows revenge, and fortunately is rescued by a small passing ship carrying only its captain, his first mate and a cat. They cross paths with the pirates, but both sides - after seeming to have victory within their grasp - meet a fate neither could have predicted. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2008.
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Just listening to both songs once, I didn't notice anything close.
What I'm curious about are the cases where it is extremely obvious that one song is based on another, and no one says anything.
Case in point: "Jolly Roger" by Adam and the Ants [1], from 1980. This is extremely similar to "The March of the MacGregors" by Ennio Morricone, from the 1966 film "Seven Guns for the MacGregors" [2].
It's not only the same melody, "Jolly Roger" is also largely the same arrangement.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc_-vSIy3fY
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5JQ1JTsJ4k